This adorable writing-prompt, whale "craftivity" serves double duty, as you can use it for back to school or the end of the year.

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This adorable writing-prompt, whale "craftivity" serves double duty, as you can use it for back to school or the end of the year. This FREEBIE includes writing prompts for both, and appeals to kids of all ages.

For extra pizzazz add silver glitter glue to the spurting water. For that finishing touch, glue an oval school photo for the pupil of the eye.

This activity is part of my big whale-themed writing activity packet on TpT. It's a whopping 80-pages and just $3.95. For your convenience, I've included a preview with this freebie.

Whether you do this activity at the beginning of the school year for a back to school icebreaker, or in fall, for October or November, this owl craftivity, is a wonderful way to get to know your students, or for students to get to know their classmates better. Completed projects make an adorable bulletin board. A caption could be: "Owl Stars!"

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Whether you do this activity at the beginning of the school year for a back to school icebreaker, or in fall, for October or November, this owl craftivity, is a wonderful way to get to know your students, or for students to get to know their classmates better. Completed projects make an adorable bulletin board. A caption could be: "Owl Stars!"

For those finishing touches, have students cut out their owl, fold the wings inward, add some highlights with crayons and perhaps a pair of wiggle eyes. Where they place the eyes really changes the personality of this cute little critter.

There are two options. Students can make an owl for themselves: "Owl" About Me... or have children pick a partner and make one for that student: "Owl" Be Your Friend.

You can cover all sorts of Common Core State Standards with this cute Dalmatian Fire Safety Puppy Packet. The packet includes patterns to make 4 Dalmatian matching games: (upper & lowercase letters, numbers, shapes and colors). Students put a fireman's hat on the Dalmatian, then find the matching bone to put in his mouth. i.e. The hats have uppercase letters on them, the bones have the matching lowercase letters.

You can cover all sorts of Common Core State Standards with this cute Dalmatian Fire Safety Puppy Packet. The packet includes patterns to make 4 Dalmatian matching games: (upper & lowercase letters, numbers, shapes and colors). Students put a fireman's hat on the Dalmatian, then find the matching bone to put in his mouth. i.e. The hats have uppercase letters on them, the bones have the matching lowercase letters. I've also included a spotless dog for you to program for other things, as well as a black and white spotted puppy so students can color it. (Use for writing prompts etc.)

There are also 16 "I Spy" worksheets for extra practice and whole group assessing, upper and lowercase letters, numbers, number words, colors, color words, shapes, and shape words.

Since so many fire safety rules begin with a contraction like "Don't play with matches." I've included Dalmatian-themed contraction action activities: an alphabetical list of 72 contractions, 24 pocket cards with fire-safety sentences using contractions, plus 3 contraction worksheets.

Do you have a cat-theme going? Do your kiddos enjoy Pete the Cat stories? If so, I think you'll like this alpha cat packet. The packet includes separate upper and lowercaseletters that are purr-fect for Memory Match and "I Have; Who Has?"games. There's also a set of cards with both the upper and lowercase letter on them. Cut them up to make puzzles, or run off a set for each student. They color, trim, collate and add a cover to make an Itty Bitty booklet.

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Do you have a cat-theme going? Do your kiddos enjoy Pete the Cat stories? If so, I think you'll like this alpha cat packet. The packet includes separate upper and lowercaseletters that are purr-fect for Memory Match and "I Have; Who Has?"games. There's also a set of cards with both the upper and lowercase letter on them. Cut them up to make puzzles, or run off a set for each student. They color, trim, collate and add a cover to make an Itty Bitty booklet.

The packet also includes an upper and lowercase letter assessment mat, recording sheets, matching upper to lowercase letter worksheets, as well as trace and write the letter worksheets. There's a 3-page tip list of ideas for using the cards, plus a Kaboom game.

Here's a cat craftivity that's a great review of all sorts of standards, and is purr-fect for your Pete the Cat theme. There are 4 different cats to choose from. You can run them off on blue construction paper (for a Pete the Cat one) and have students trim, or run them off on white construction paper and have students color their cat.

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Here's a cat craftivity that's a great review of all sorts of standards, and is purr-fect for your Pete the Cat theme. There are 4 different cats to choose from. You can run them off on blue construction paper (for a Pete the Cat one) and have students trim, or run them off on white construction paper and have students color their cat.

There are "sliders" for upper and lowercase letters, numbers, counting backwards from 10-0, shapes and skip counting by 2's, 3's, 5's, and 10's. Pick the slider for the standard that you want to practice. To review patterns or odd and even numbers, have students choose 2 or 3 colors and trace the letters/numbers in an ABAB or ABC pattern. To review shapes, have children color the shapes, which will become the "nose" of the cat.

Use the sliders as a review, "I Spy" games, or a fun way to individually assess a child. When you play the "I Spy" games, students take turns calling out a shape/number/letter and then move their "slider" to show what was called. When they've done so, they raise their hand. You can tell at a glance who is having difficulty. Playing these I Spy slider games, is a quick and easy way to whole-group assess.

This activity will be FREE for an entire year! Woo Hoo.

After which time, it will be up-dated and put in my TpT shop.

Click on the link to zip on over to see the new, 82-page (Pete The Cat inspired) "Cool Cat Sliders", which now includes more sizes, plus a "What color shoes should I wear?"

This packet includes a variety of activities to help review and practice story elements. They have a cat-theme, so they are perfect for Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, and Pete the Cat My Rockin' School Shoes.

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This packet includes a variety of activities to help review and practice story elements. They have a cat-theme, so they are perfect for Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, and Pete the Cat My Rockin' School Shoes.

The packet includes 6 Venn diagrams, a graphing extension, 4 I Spy a word games featuring 56 words (mostly from the Dolch word list), a color word worksheet, 2 graphic organizers, 3 posters (including the definition of what "the moral of the story" means), plus pocket cards for character, setting, and event.

To help reinforce colors and color words, play this "spin to win" cool cat color game. Students choose a partner and take turns spinning. Whatever color they land on, they color that sneaker, and then trace and write the matching color word in that color. The first one to complete their bookmark with all of the colors is the winner.

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To help reinforce colors and color words, play this "spin to win" cool cat color game. Students choose a partner and take turns spinning. Whatever color they land on, they color that sneaker, and then trace and write the matching color word in that color. The first one to complete their bookmark with all of the colors is the winner.

I've included a certificate of praise for them. This is a fun game for students to play after you have read the book, Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, by James Dean and Eric Litwin.